Rein-holder



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E. H. HOWLAND.

REIN HOLDER.

No. 557,583. Patented Apr. 7, 1896.

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EDXVARD H. HOYVLAND, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

RElN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,583, dated April 7, 1896.

Application filed April 8, 1895. Serial No. 545,029. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDwARD H. HowLAND, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain useful Improvements in Rein-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention,

such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has relation to a new and novel rein-holder adapted to be attached to an ordinary bridle.

The aim and object of my invention is to provide a neat, efficient, and simple device, by means of which the reins, as used in connection with bridles, can be suitably and conveniently looped and secured to the bridle without bundling by passing the same through the bridle-ring, as is usual.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows aside elevation of a bridle provided with my improved attachment, showing the reins as broken and looped within my improved holder. Fig. 2 shows a detached top view of the whole as attached. Fig. 3 shows a side view of the same.

My invention comprises, essentially, a preferably wire blank comprising two straight stems 6, which are provided at one end with the loops 7, which form an integral part. These stems continue in opposite directions to form the outwardly-extending bows 5, which are then recurved and twisted, as shown at a, to form a hook which ends in a loop D, the whole being formed of one piece of wire. It

is between the stems 6 and the loop 4 that the reins K are removably held.

The blank can be made of any suitable wire and can be japanned or plated to suit the taste. The device can be attached to any bridle and in no way detracts from the neat and dressy appearance of the same. In securing the device to an ordinary bridle, for instance, the holder would be secured by means of the terminal loops 7 7, which would be passed over the tongue of the buckle B, which is common to all bridles, and by means of which the bit is secured to the bridle proper. The connecting-strap M would then be secured to any ordinary strap-loop and be guided over the stems 6 6, which are locked on the tongue 3, between the buckle B and the straps, as is shown in Fig. 1.

This device forms a neat and handy attachment and eliminates the necessity of passing the reins through the bit-ring and tying the same as is universally necessary.

Now, having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is

As anew article of manufacture a one-piece rein holder comprising two straight wire stems, 6, 6,said wire stems being provided with the terminal loops, 7, 7, said stems continuing and being interwoven and recurved to form a hook, 4, said interwoven portion ending in the terminal loop, D, adapted to workbetween the stems, 6, 6, all substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD n. nowLAND.

\Vitnesses:

P. S. STOUT, CHARLES L. THOMAS. 

